Japanese convenience store chain begins testing remote controlled robot staff in Tokyo
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The demise of the secondhand bookshop
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Ricotta Records – Anonymouse, a Malmö-based art collective that has installed several miniature buildings imagined for mice, reveal their latest creation
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The true cost of dollar stores - discount chains are thriving, but fostering violence and neglect in poor communities
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Microsoft to permanently close all of its retail stores, with locations in NYC, London, Sydney, and Redmond being converted to "experience centers"
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Bottled water manufactured by Whole Foods and sold in most of its US stores and on Amazon contains potentially harmful levels of arsenic
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Like Christmas: New Zealand's post-Covid books boom
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Love Bug's creator tracked down to repair shop in Manila
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Calling me a hero only makes you feel better
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Amazon-owned Whole Foods is quietly tracking its employees with a heat map tool that ranks which stores are most at risk of unionizing
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Shopping in LA? Cover your face or get tossed, Garcetti orders
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Inside the story of how H-E-B planned for the pandemic
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Norway's hazmat booksellers – two Oslo bookshop owners deliver books wearing full hazmat suits and gas masks in order to raise local awareness
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Whole Foods employees are staging a nationwide "sick-out"
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My family owns a grocery store. The supply chain is a real problem
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Need to stock your pantry? These LA restaurants are temporarily flipping to corner stores
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Dollar General cuts store hours, dedicates hour to senior shoppers during coronavirus pandemic
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SF mayor calls for calm — panic at grocery stores and pot dispensaries ensues
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Here’s a list of authors whose tours have been canceled due to coronavirus, if you’d like to support them by buying books
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Amazon glitch stymies Whole Foods, fresh grocery deliveries
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So, what should I get at the grocery store?
Just looking for some general advice in the event of a quarantine. I'm already thinking I will make sure to get plenty of flour, rice, beans, and water. But I would definitely like to hear from...
Just looking for some general advice in the event of a quarantine. I'm already thinking I will make sure to get plenty of flour, rice, beans, and water. But I would definitely like to hear from the more forward thinking members on what to get!
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As coronavirus spreads, some Beijing bookstores have partnered with a food delivery service to get books to readers
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Local bookstores have a new weapon in the fight with Amazon
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The best canned chickpeas you can buy at the store
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Breach in payment-processing systems at Wawa convenience stores may have compromised over thirty million cards
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How IKEA became Sweden's national brand
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40,000 festive shoppers to hit Swedish superstore – shoppers travel from afar to Gekås Ullared mega-mall, an institution that has its own reality TV show
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The grocery store where produce meets politics: The legendary Park Slope Food Co-op carries sustainable food, low prices, and New Yorkers’ opinions in bulk
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IKEA's profits have fallen nearly 10% as the world's largest furniture retailer stepped up its spending on renewable energy and its growing online operation
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IKEA staff in Uppsala, Sweden turned up at work to find a fugitive sleeping in the store's bed department
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H&M is the latest fashion brand to test out the concept of clothing rental
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One supermarket chain in Finland has an idea to address food waste – S-market has started holding 'happy hours' for products nearing expiration date
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Making sense of all the choices in the yogurt aisle
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Apple will give indie repair shops the tools to fix iPhones
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In defense of the department store bike
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An armed man who caused panic at a Walmart in Missouri says it was a 'social experiment'
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How the ‘IKEA effect’ subtly influences how you spend
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Norway's consumer watchdog has criticised fast-fashion chain H&M for misleading marketing of its sustainable collection
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The world’s last Blockbuster has no plans to close
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The man who’s going to save your neighborhood grocery store
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Monolithic concrete forms associated with brutalist architecture inspired the interiors of Axel Arigato's Copenhagen flagship store
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How a grocery store's plan to shame customers into using reusable bags backfired
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Mississippi is forbidding grocery stores from calling veggie burgers “veggie burgers”
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Don’t know which toaster to buy? There’s a website for that: When did recommendation sites become such a central part of the online economy? And are they changing the way we shop?
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Grocery stores are packed with plastic. Some are changing
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Avoiding "health washing" at the grocery store
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The hyper-specialist shops of Berlin
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Walmart unveils an AI-powered store of the future, now open to the public
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The IKEA effect: how we value the fruits of our labour over instant gratification
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The rise of ‘zero-waste’ grocery stores
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